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An advertisement for Rayco Auto seat covers in which male and female voices sing a jingle about the product over animation and live-action images are displayed. A male narrator talks about the various styles of the product and its affordability.
An advertisement for Busch Bavarian Beer in which a female voice sings a jingle, accompanied by music, over various images of beer being poured and slid down bar tops.
A narrator explains the values of having tools. He uses the example of how Henry VIII adopted the use of fork to show how tools improve life. The narrator concludes by telling the viewer that the greatest tool is profits and investments.
An advertisement for Pillsbury pancake mix in which a narrator demonstrates the rising ingredient in the mix as the product cooks on a griddle. Submitted for Clio Awards category Short Spots.
An advertisement for Post Toasties corn cereal in which an ear of corn is shucked to reveal the cereal inside, and it falls into a bowl. Submitted for Clio Awards category Short Spots.
An advertisement for Peugeot in which new cars are depicted being test driven around a track after rolling off the assembly line. An offscreen narrator describes how, unlike other car companies, Peugeot test drives each new vehicle. One of the winners of the 1976 Clio Awards.
An advertisement for Super Shell gasoline in which a male narrator explains a car race, called the Shell 4000 Rally, across Canada. Starting in Vancouver and ending in Montreal, two white cars and two black cars are pictured racing with a superimposed map showing their progress. In the end the white cars with Super Shell arrive in Montreal before the other cars.
An advertisement for Allstate homeowners insurance in which a narrator stands among the wreckage of a Texas house destroyed by Hurricane Carla in 1961 and interviews the owner of the house, Ben Hargis. Mr. Hargis describes his gratitude for his insurance compensation through Allstate and the speed with which he received a check. Submitted for the Clio Awards.
The 7 Walker brothers are able to find office furniture they all like at Desks & Furnishings. When they can't agree on a conference table, each brother buys their own table.
A city is full of men with the same face. A narrator states that in a city like this people would only need one razor however in the real-world men need different razors sizes. The narrator then goes on to explain how the Remington Safety Razor is designed to be flexible and used in any shaving situation.
Two girls have a bragging contest between each other. When one girl brags about all the diseases she had the other girl respond by stating she has cerebral palsy.
An advertisement for National Bohemian Beer in which a lighthouse narrates how it has witnessed many historical events in the Chesapeake Bay, including the creation of National Bohemian Beer in 1885. An animated segment includes the voice of Mel Blanc, best known for his work with the Looney Tunes. Submitted for the Clio Awards.
An advertisement for Arpege natural spray by Lanvin in which a male narrator explains how the product bottle has no fizz and is all fragrance. The narrator states how Arpege drives women "glad" over an image of a couple kissing. Submitted for the Clio Awards.
A man in a TV set complains about being trapped on the small screen. He then walks onto a much larger projector screen and encourages viewers to upgrade.
An advertisement for Prestone Anti-Freeze in which a male narrator tells the tale of two neighbors in three acts. One neighbor is a do-it-yourself guy and repeatedly gets things wrong, including trying to replace his anti-freeze. The other neighbor hires a mechanic to replace the fluid correctly as well as checking other issues with the car. In the end the DIY guy learns his lesson.
Danny Thomas reflects on his positive experience as a kid attending a Boys’ Club and urge the viewers to remember the time they spent as kids at a Boys’ Club and support the next generation kids by supporting a Boys’ Club.
Cups of strawberries, oranges, and cherries are shown before being replaced with cups full of strawberries, oranges, and cherry flavored Jell-O. The narrator then states this is how close you can get to a perfect replacement for the real thing.
A man and woman sits in a convertible while French music plays in the background. The woman bats her eyes at the man through the rear view mirror showing off her Dorothy Gray eye makeup. The man then returns her glances through the mirror and they embrace.
A narrator explains that Desert Dri Deodorant is the best deodorant for women and provides 24 hour sweat protection. As the narrator speaks a woman models the deodorant.
As a woman talks on the phone a rat sneaks into a garbage pile by using a telephone wire. An announcer warns the viewers that the only way to stop a rat is to use a garbage can with a lid.
An advertisement for Van Heusen apparel in which a man walks out of the ocean on his way to an office building modeling the brand's line of men's shirts with "wash and ready" technology. Submitted for Clio Awards category Apparel.
National Film Board of Canada, Crawley Films Limited
Summary:
A Canadian film production addressed to U.S. audiences, showing the industrial and commercial cooperation between the two nations as it occurs throughout the Great Lakes. "The Great Lakes are shown as a great industrial region with an immense amount of diversified cargo flowing along the shipping routes that lie between Canada and the United States. It is the shipping theme that links together short sequences on the industrial life of the Great Lakes: steel production, pulp manufacture, ship-building, grain storage, and the workings of the huge locks of one of the most vital canal systems in the world" (National Film Board of Canada catalog record http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/en/our-collection/?idfilm=17015)
A man sneezes when animals, dust, and ragweed are presented before him. A spokesman diagnoses the man with allergies and encourages the man and the audience to take Allerest to alleviate their allergies.
An advertisement for Ritz crackers in which an animation of the brand logo consumes a package of sardines. Submitted for Clio Awards category Short Spots.
An advertisement for L'Aimant de Coty Spray Mist featuring images of a woman spraying the product on, accompanied by percussive music. The woman addresses the camera, and a male narrator states, "Give her L'Aimant before someone else does." Submitted for the Clio Awards.
An advertisement or Your National Bank in which an animated boy takes his piggy bank to the bank teller and it winks at him. Submitted for Clio Awards category Banks.
An advertisement for French's packaged scallop potatoes in which a narrator describes the product's cooking process and two people eat the completed dish. Submitted for Clio Awards category Packaged Foods.
An advertisement for Supp-hose stockings in which two women declare that they are wearing the product. An offscreen male narrator describes the product over images of a woman trying it on. Submitted for the Clio Awards.
In this General Electric Theater, the narrator talks about the recent contribution General Electric has made to the aviation, law enforcement, lighting, medical, and cooking industries.
An advertisement for Genesee Beer in which an animated man holding a projector enter the living room of a couple. He sets up the projector and a screen, scaring a cat, and displays a Genesee Beer advertisement with jingle on the screen. After the advertisement plays he picks up his things, leaves, as the woman exclaims, "He was late today!"
In this episode of General Electric Theater, the General Electric research facility is showcase. Some of the project the facility is working on relate to gas, thermionic conversion, and hypersonic shock tunnels.
An advertisement for Sea Pak frozen shrimp in which a couple dines on the product and a narrator describes how it is made. Submitted for Clio Awards category Packaged Foods.
An advertisement for Utica Club Beer in which a pair of talking beer steins ("Schultz" and "Uncle Rudolph") talk about how the beer is authentically German. The ad concludes with a female beer stein singing a jingle about how Utica Club ages beer "the natural way." Submitted for the Clio Awards.
An advertisement for Pepsi in which a young couple visits a fair, while an offscreen male narrator describes how the product is made for people who "think young." A female voice sings a jingle as the couple eats hot dogs and enters a hall of mirrors. Submitted for the Clio Awards.
An advertisement for Belvedere cigarettes in which a male narrator tells a man that Belvedere is including a coupon in some packs of cigarettes. The man is folding up his coupon into a paper airplane while talking to the narrator telling him he smokes the cigarettes because he likes them. At the end of the commercial the man throws his paper airplane out the window while yelling "...just look at the baby fly!"
An advertisement for Molson Beer in which a male narrator speaks in French Canadian about "La Force De L'Age" (translated The Strength of the Age) while music plays and images of construction are shown. Images of electrical plant, hospital, stadium, and dam. The commercial ends with the Molson logo and slogan "La Bonne Biere de Chez Nous."
A man face is labeled a 9 for being the toughest kind of face to shave and requiring a person to set the setting on a Gillette Adjustable Razor to 9. However, with the new Gillette razorblade he can get a clean shave on a lower setting.
A father wakes up and trips over a toy horse. He walks into the room and find his wife applying baby cream to their daughter. The wife explains to him why she is applying the cream and the father reflect on how fast his daughter is growing.
A Spanish-language advertisement for Pana-Arm desktop lamps in which two stop-motion animated lamps dance and declare love for each other. One of the winners of the 1975 Clio Awards.
An advertisement for Budweiser in which four men play a card game around a table. One of the men declares he has a hand of five kings and proceeds to lay out four kings on the table, followed by a bottle of Budweiser as the fifth "king." An offscreen male narrator encourages the viewer to make the product their regular, "special" beer. One of the winners of the 1973 Clio Awards.
Shows home life of a typical Japanese family in Tokyo, pointing out customs that are similar to, and different from, those in America. Stresses the warm relationship between parents and children.
Footage of the Stillman College-IU Cultural Exchange circa 1964. Footage features the IU delegation traveling by plane, the meet and greet between IU and Stillman College, Stillman College Orchestra practice, and music lessons provided to the Stillman College students.
An experimental film created by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart in which a sheaf of lines, constantly gyrating, group and regroup harmoniously in accord with music composed and played on wind and string instruments by folk musician Peter Seeger.
This film opens in a classroom, showing a music teacher working through a piece with a group of string musicians. He goes on to talk about an influential teacher he had at Virginia State College named Undine Moore. Quipped the "Dean of Black Women Composers," Undine Eliza Anna Smith Moore was a notable and prolific American composer and professor of music in the twentieth century. Much of her work was inspired by black spirituals and folk music. She was a renowned teacher, and once stated that she experienced “teaching itself as an art.” Towards the end of her life, she received many notable awards for her accomplishments as a music educator.
In this film the cinematographic space becomes itself an active element of the dance rather than being an area in which the dance takes place. The dancer shares with the camera and the cutting a collaborative responsibility for the movements themselves. Recommended for use only by groups interested in the cinematographical element of the dance.
Camera-less film made by participants at an event 'Action + Agency: Storytelling + Filmmaking' held at the Grunwald Gallery of Art on Thursday March 6, 2025.
This multi-faceted event featured live interviews facilitated by Alex Chambers, host of WFIU’s Inner States podcast, about moments that embody a resistance to the status quo. Attendees had the option to participate in experimental camera-less filmmaking, creating art inspired by the action and agency in the stories told from Amy Oelsner, Stephanie Littell, and Ileana Haberman. At the end of the evening, the strips of film were spliced together and projected in the gallery.
This event was part of the YOU (probably) HAVEN’T SEEN THIS BEFORE exhibit which was held at the Grunwald Gallery of Art from January 17 - March 8, 2025.
Animation and a musical background are used to locate incenters, circumcenters, centroids, and orthocenters in a number of triangles. The film was created on the Tektronics 4051 Graphics Terminal.
Portrait of a woman who was born without arms, yet leads a normal and productive life. Follows her through a typical day as she cares for her home and family, and explains her thoughts about her handicap and life.
Professor Sears Crowell's interest in marine biology began when he took classes at the Children’s School of Sciences in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. As a teenager, he worked at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, where he completed most of his research throughout his career. He focused his investigations on hydroids, sea anemones, and jellyfish.
Highly involved in the science community, Dr. Crowell served as trustee for the Marine Biological Laboratory and was named trustee emeritus in 1979. He also served two terms on their executive committee and was secretary of the board of trustees for two years. He was the first program officer for the American Society of Zoologists and the first managing editor of their publication, American Zoologist. Dr. Crowell also served as chairman of the zoology section of the Indiana Academy of Science from 1949 to 1950. He was a member of the Indiana University faculty for 31 years.
Helga Winold research footage studying the movement of cello players - both in real time and slowed down.
Helga Winold is a concert cellist and former Professor of Music in the Jacobs School of Music. She was also the first IU student to receive her Doctorate of Music in the Cello (1967) and was appointed to the faculty of the Jacobs School of Music in 1969. She performed research into "the analysis of movement in string playing and the translation of thought into movement". With IU psychology professor Esther Thelen, Winold used computers to track and analyze students' movements as they played the cello resulting in better teaching methods and articles in scientific journals. She was awarded the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2008.
Helga Winold IU biography: http://info.music.indiana.edu/news/page/normal/7812.html
Helga Winold Website biography: https://www.winoldsmusic.com/about-us
Helga Winold President's Award: https://honorsandawards.iu.edu/search-awards/honoree.shtml?honoreeID=4236
Esther Thelen Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Thelen
Esther Thelen Obituary: http://www.psych.nyu.edu/adolph/publications/2005AdolphVereijken%20ThelenObit.pdf
Patterns of light reflected from variColored plastics dance and flicker, giving the impression of an abstract ballet. There is instrumental and vocal accompaniment. Made by Jim Davis, an American artist in plastics.
Contains aerial photography, animation, and charts to show methods used by Indianapolis to effect slum clearance. Pictures city officials as they cite the need for rebuilding slum areas and tells of the founding in 1945 of the Indianapolis Redevelopment Commission outlining plans for future development as well as picturing results of past achievements. Points out the cooperative efforts of Flanner House as residents are assisted in the building of new homes, summarizes the accomplishments of the Commission, and views future plans for slum clearance.
Limited to a Bolex, a tripod, a light meter, and 100 feet of Kodak 16mm B&W reversal film, we captured the film digitization phase of the Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative (MDPI) at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. The film was shot in chronological order of the MDPI film digitization process and all editing was done in camera.
Employs animation and live photography to present a series of examples demonstrating axioms as statements accepted as true without proof and applies these axioms to addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Shows how the root of each equation can be used to check solutions and uses an equal arm balance to illustrate that what is done to one side of an equation must be done to the other. Concludes with a problem the solution of which requires the viewer to select correct axioms.
Discusses how to simplify a mathematical word formula by restating it in letters and signs. Explains the mathematical formula for distance by graphic and pictorial examples and by practical application of the formula to problems in science and industry.
Shows a Scottish terrier playing in a yard and fetching a toy throughout the seasons. In the winter, the dog chases snowballs thrown by members of the Wilkinson family.
Presents a tribute by Herman B. Wells, President of Indiana University, to past students on the 100th anniversary of the Alumni Association. Pictures scenes of the campus and student activities that are now only memories in the lives of graduates, recognizes the graduates' accomplishments in business, the professions, and the arts, and documents the extending of their valuable services to the community and the university. Ends with remarks of gratitude by President Wells for alumni assistance in the form of advice, time, and money.
Uses maps and animation to show the danger points on the globe in 1949 where war could strike again. Contrasts the United Nations with the League of Nations; explains the failure of the League of Nations as due to a lack of political machinery to achieve its goals. Pictures the organization of the United Nations through animation, and describes the functions of each body. Concludes with emphasis on the need for international cooperation so that everyone can share in the products of every nation.
Describes the research being made by the UN Technical Assistance Administration on Thailand's system of waterways and its barges, in order to recommend them to other countries. Shows how it is helping Thailand to improve its irrigation and flood control projects. Also pictures the work of the FAO in developing more modern methods of fish cultivation in Thailand.
Explains how sea lamprey nearly destroyed the fish in the Great Lakes. Scientists studied methods of controlling this predator and devised electrical barriers and electromechanical weir and traps.
This program explores the man-machine relationship through the research of Paul Fitts, Julian Christiansen, and George Briggs. It examines how humans handle and process information, as well as the challenges of information feedback between people and machines. The program also looks at human behavior within complex man-machine systems and how insights from these studies have influenced the redesign of equipment to better match human capabilities. The research highlights the dynamic interaction and adjustment between human users and technological systems.
Describes Marian Anderson's life, from her early years in Philadelphia through her New York Town Hall recital, and presents her as a concert artist singing Begrüssung by Handel; the Negro spirituals Oh, what a beautiful city; He's got the whole world in His hand; Crucifixion; and Deep river; the traditional song Comin' through the rye; and Ave Maria by Schubert.
Discusses the contribution of stage costumes to the art of the theater. Follows the costume designer through the initial analysis of the play, the drawing-board, the costume workshop, and to the actual wearing of the costumes. Stresses four basic considerations of costume design: unity, identification, projection, and functionalism. Outlines problems related to action, setting, lighting, and make-up.
Presents some of the ways in which psychologists are studying the growth and development of personality and emotional behavior in children as observed in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Sears at Stanford University. Explores the interaction between parental behavior and attitudes and the emotional development of children.
This episode focuses on the art of the Etruscans, renowned for their skill in terra-cotta sculpture, particularly in creating larger-than-life figures. It highlights a display of such sculptures, including a heroic-sized warrior. Dr. Dietrich von Bothmer joins Professor Kraemer for a discussion on the techniques and significance of Etruscan art. The episode explores these works in the context of their cultural and artistic contributions.
Shows how the Navajo weave their rugs. Includes the following different operations: sheepshearing, carding of the wool, spinning by hand, setting up the loom, making the dye, dyeing the yarn, close view of weaving technique, and finishing the weave.
Discusses the relationship between emotional stability and criminal behavior. Points out that most crimes are committed by normal persons, illustrating with examples of hit-and-run drivers, embezzlers, income tax offenders, and people temporarily under stress or tempted in a particular situation. Analyzes motivations and stresses situations to provide an understanding of the normal criminal. Features Dr. Douglas M. Kelly.
When Marv Baker does not make the basketball team, he begins to worry. When he finds out that his sister Alice's sickness is caused by worry and learns from her doctor three rules to insure health, he thinks through what the doctor has said and applies the three rules to his own problem.
Utilizes excerpts from speeches and interviews of many leading black activists to exemplify the various components of "Black Power." Ranges from discussion of black separatism and violence to non-violent integration. Interviews Adam Clayton Powell, Stokely Carmichael, Muhammad Ali, Floyd McKissick, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Whitney Young, H. Rap Brown, Dick Gregory, and Eldridge Cleaver.
Tells the complex story of India's social and political problems immediately after World War II. Shows the overcrowded conditions, how war with Japan brought to a head centuries of strife among various dissident groups in India's conglomerate population, and how tradition has placed oriental luxury side by side with squalor. Enumerates the social and industrial benefits, as well as the abuses, that came with British domination.
Reviews the civil strife between religious groups during the first days of Free India. Stresses the fact that with the assassination of Gandhi much of the civil war stopped, and now Nehru is attempting to weld the country into a democratic state. Shows present-day India's industry, people, religion, and agriculture.
Shows the actual training and activities of Air Transport Command personnel with routines of briefing, radio communications, and other precautionary measures during World War II.
Reviews the important wartime changes and also points out their lasting effect upon the entire nation, as manufacturers planned to keep industry in the West after World War II. Offers glimpses of such Pacific Coast industries as shipbuilding, aircraft production, lumber, oil, steel, and synthetic rubber.
Discusses recent drug discoveries such as sulfa, penicillin, and streptomycin; increased opportunities for medical students from all parts of the world to study in this country such problems as the Rh blood factor and malnutrition; and progress in the control of heart disease, cancer, and rheumatic fever up to 1948.
Traces the position of the Presidency from its constitutional beginnings to the present status of the office. Explains the effect of the development of the implied powers, and discusses the unique position of the Presidency today. Shows the men who have held the office, and the events that shaped their conduct of it.
Gives the United Nations' report on how the Food and Agriculture Organization was beginning, in 1949, to solve the tremendous problem of doubling the world's food output. Emphasizes that the FAO is waging a world-wide attack on rats and insects, and shows what the FAO was doing in China to provide insecticides, serums, and fertilizer. Pictures the FAO's attempts to introduce improved agricultural equipment and methods.
